NBJC Recognizes Transgender Day of Remembrance
The National Black Justice Coalition Recognizes Transgender Day of Remembrance with a Statement from Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY) to End Bias Against Black Transgender People
This report determined that Black transgender and gender non-conforming people face some of the highest levels of discrimination of all transgender people.
This report determined that Black transgender and gender non-conforming people face some of the highest levels of discrimination of all transgender people.
Among the key findings of the analysis released were:
- Black transgender people had an extremely high unemployment rate at 26 percent, two times the rate of the overall transgender sample and four times the rate of the general population.
- A startling 41 percent of Black respondents said they had experienced homelessness at some point in their lives, more than five times the rate of the general U.S. population.
- Black transgender people lived in extreme poverty with 34 percent reporting a household income of less than $10,000 per year. This is more than twice the rate for transgender people of all races (15 percent), four times the general Black population rate (9 percent), and eight times the general U.S. population rate (4 percent).
- Black transgender people were affected by HIV in devastating numbers. More than one-fifth of respondents were living with HIV (20.23 percent), compared to a rate of 2.64 percent for transgender respondents of all races, 2.4 percent for the general Black population, and 0.60 percent of the general U.S. population.
In response to these grave numbers, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY) released this statement:
